Clouds and Trees, Bishop Creek Canyon, Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA

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February Photo of the Month: Eastern Sierra Reflected in Farmers Pond, Owens Valley CA

This month’s photo was taken February 10, 2005 out at Farmers Pond in California’s Owens Valley. Once again I was at the pond hoping to catch a nice sunset. The clouds looked great that evening and there was enough open sky over the mountains that I thought this would be an awesome one. Mother Nature had other plans though and the sunset colors never came. The reflections in the pond were so amazing though, I couldn’t let them go without getting some shots.

I’ve always loved the color version of this image. Even though the lighting wasn’t the greatest, the clouds and those reflections are so awesome. One night last year I decided to play around with this image in black and white. As I got deeper and deeper into the black and white I began to realize that this is what this image needed. The black and white captured what I’ve always loved about the image, the reflections and the way the clouds frame the mountains.

Ever since finding Farmers Pond back in the mid 90’s, I’ve tried to get a great reflection shot there. With the black and white version of this image I finally got it.

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Cory has put up two new time-lapse movies from the Bishop Cam, December 11 & 12. The one from the 11th shows the classic Owens Valley rain shadow. Notice how the clouds are coming from the west and the mountains just eat them up.  Even though the clouds make it into the valley, they soon fall apart. Bishop rarely get rain or snow when the storm moves over the mountains from the west like this.

The movie from the 12th is totally different though. In it the clouds are coming up the valley from the south. This brings in more moisture since the air doesn’t have to move over the mountains, and sure enough, it leads to snow in Bishop. The snow looks really cool in the time-lapse.

You can see both movies here: Bishop Cam Time-Lapse December 11 & 12

Thanks Cory.

One more thing, if you guys want to see a bunch of pictures from Mammoth, Robin has put many on her blog, Life On the Eastern Slope
Go check it out!

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Ha, I had to do it. That title is from a Jimmy Buffett song by the same name. I couldn’t help myself

Anyway, the weather is here. Our last 70 degree day was Sunday. Since then I don’t think we’ve gotten out of the 50’s and aren’t forecast too either. I’ve marked 9-27 on my calendar so I can see if that’s the last 70 of the year.

Today begins 3 days of cool, damp, rainy autumn weather. In fact, of the next 5 days, only Sunday doesn’t have rain in the forecast. It’s been getting chilly at night too. Here at the house we’ve hit 40, but other areas in South-east Wisconsin have had frost. Up in Northern Wisconsin they had a low of 23 two nights ago.

The Sierra Nevada received it’s first dusting of snow two nights ago. More is expected this weekend with a couple inches possible over the crest. Big winds are also forecast to hit the Sierra Saturday. That’s not good for the fall colors hunters.

It looks like Bishop’s lows have been dipping pretty close to the freezing mark and it just might hit it the first of next week.

Summer has fled and Fall is definitely here.

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